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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
BEON (Num_32:3).Prob. = Baal-Meon (wh. see).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Contracted from Baal Meon (Num_32:3; Num_32:38).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
bē?on (Num_32:3). See BAAL-MEON.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Beon
(Heb, Beon', בְּעֹן, apparently an early error of transcription for MEON SEE MEON [q.v.]; Sept. Βαιαν v. r. Βαμά), one of the places fit for pasturage given by Joshua to the tribes on the east of Jordan (Num_32:3). It is elsewhere more properly called BETH-BAAL. MEON (Jos_13:17), or more briefly BAAL-MEON (Num_32:38), and BETH- MEON (Jer_48:23), for which this name may be a contraction.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.